Firefighters March With Grenfell Families & Supporters

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HUNDREDS of firefighters from fire brigades across the UK marked the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster yesterday by participating in the silent walk...
Grenfell families greet firefighters’ Guard of Honour on the Silent March in North Kensington on May 14th

Litany Of Safety Breaches Led To Grenfell

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A LITANY of safety breaches which led to the horrific Grenfell Tower fire were revealed yesterday during the opening of the next stage...
Postal workers marching in Wolverhampton against Royal Mail privatisation

ROYAL MAIL 20% JOB CUTS – ‘Conflict inevitable’ – CWU

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The Communication Workers Union yesterday warned that planned job cuts by Royal Mail will threaten services and downgrade staff to a part-time workforce. Plans seen...
West London Council of Action picket of Ealing hospital determined to prevent the hospital from closing

‘We must stop the A&E closures’ – Doctors reply to Nicholson

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‘IT can’t be done’ Southwest London hospital consultant Dr Philip Howard told News Line yesterday in response to a call for more A&E closures...
Celtic supporters flew the Palestinian flag both outside and inside the ground last Wednesday evening

Celtic Flies Palestinian Flags

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CELTIC FANS displayed Palestinian flags in a demonstration against Apartheid Israel last Wednesday night, 17th August, during the Celtic v Hapoel Be’er Sheva match. Campaigners...

Sparks halt St Paul’s traffic

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HUNDREDS of angry electricians halted the traffic for 20 minutes outside St Paul’s Cathedral in central London yesterday morning, during their latest demonstration against...

Brown Coalition Bid – Ready To Go

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GORDON BROWN offered the Liberals a coalition yesterday evening, and his resignation as PM by the time of the Labour Party conference. Brown, speaking outside...

2,800 Tata steel workers will lose jobs today as blast furnaces cease!

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APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of...

PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW! – demands Palestinian Ambassador to UN

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PALESTINIAN Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour called for an immediate permanent ceasefire when he addressed a special session of the United Nations...

‘Keep going to win your demands’ – says UCU President

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STRIKING UCU lecturers from Further Education Colleges across London packed out a strike rally at the Emanuelle Centre in Marsham Street in central London...
Barts and Royal London staff and supporters marched against mass sackings last month

Barts To Cut Nurses!

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Barts and London NHS Trust is planning to reduce the proportion of qualified nurses on its wards as part of a two-year programme of...
BA strikers confident of victory on the first day of their strike action on March 20th

Cabin Crew – 20 Days Of Strike Action

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UNITE, Britain’s largest union, yesterday announced a new round of strikes over 20 days at British Airways. This follows the third overwhelming vote by Unite’s...

4,600 Rolls Royce ‘jobs devastation’ – Unite & GMB

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FOUR thousand six hundred jobs have been axed at Rolls-Royce which ‘will not only have a devastating impact on workers but also on the...
Riot police buses blocking the Hellenic Steel plant on Friday morning

Greek Riot Police Storm Steel Plant

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AT 5.30AM yesterday about 50 armed riot police stormed the striking steel workers’ pickets at the Hellenic Steel plant in Aspropyrgos, about 25 km...
Osborne told firefighters yesterday that the service must agree to ‘substantial operational reform’

500,000 Public Sector Jobs To Be Slashed

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TORY Chancellor Osborne confirmed yesterday that the coalition government was pressing ahead with the most savage attack on the working class since the Second...

‘FREE ASSANGE’ – demands demo outside Westminster Magistrates Court hearing yesterday

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‘FREE Julian Assange!’ demanded a mass protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning while inside, the head of WikiLeaks won the right for extra...
Ealing mothers, residents and trade unionists lobbying the CCG meeting yesterday demanding to occupy Ealing Hospital to stop the closure of the Maternity Department

Occupy Ealing Hospital! – Clinical Commissioning Group sets July 1st Maternity closure

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‘EALING Hospital maternity department is to close by July 1st’, Pippa Nightingale Maternity Lead for ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ told a meeting of Ealing...

Union Leaders Helping Bosses Say Gourmet Workers

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angry Gate Gourmet workers told News Line over the weekend that they want their union, the TGWU, to provide them with information on who...
Greek seafarers demonstrate at the port of Piraeus on Wednesday morning

Piraeus port blockaded!

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ATHENS – Thousands of Greek seafarers supported by other workers as well as students blockaded, from early on Wednesday morning, the ships and ferries...
Lively picket line outside Bow  bus garage yesterday morning

Busworkers Fight Zero Pay Rise Deal!

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Nearly 2,500 members working for the East London Bus Group took part in a 24-hour strike from 3am yesterday in a dispute over the...
Firefighters demonstrating against cuts to the fire service in London. Their union warns that the cuts are endangering lives

Firefighters Deaths Rise

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Firefighters from every station in Hertfordshire are joining a national rally and lobby of Parliament in Westminster on Wednesday, 12 November. They are urging politicians...
Celebrations outside the ERT station after the Greek High Court ordered the ending of the closure

‘A Victory at ERT’ – workers determined to bring down Samaras

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THE leaders of the eleven TV, Radio and newspaper media trade unions issued a ‘Victory at ERT’ (Greek State TV and Radio network) statement...

New Expenses Crisis!

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THE Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sir John Lyons, has opened an inquiry into expense claims by the Culture Secretary Maria Miller. This follows a complaint...

‘We Won’t Let You Close Lewisham Hospital’

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LEWISHAM East Labour MP Heidi Alexander handed in a 22,000 signature petition to Downing Street yesterday against plans to axe Lewisham Hospital’s A&E and...

£16bn more welfare cuts! – before the next election

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PRIME minister Cameron yesterday revealed on the eve of the Tory Party conference that the government is planning to slash welfare by another £16...
Teachers marching against the Tory government’s attacks on state education

Teachers 60-Hour Week ‘Unacceptable!’

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‘TEACHERS working 60 hours a week is totally unacceptable and is exacerbating the teacher shortage,’ warns Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union...

FORWARD WITH GENERAL STRIKE! – Dave Wiltshire calls for action at WRP May Day...

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DAVE WILTSHIRE, the Secretary of the All Trades Unions Alliance told the WRP’s May Day rally: ‘From this May Day meeting we send revolutionary...

Palestinian mother & child arrested

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ISRAELI forces detained at least seven Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank overnight, including a mother and her 14-year-old child. Local and security...

Forced labour for ex-Calais children

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REFUGEE children sent from the demolished ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais are being used as forced labour in fruit farms, a charity has claimed. So far...
Whipps Cross strikers took their campaign to Rentokil head office in Victoria, central London, yesterday

STRIKE WAVE! – Firefighters, hospital workers and postal workers take action

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Firefighters, hospital and postal workers were manning picket lines yesterday as the working class stepped up action to defend jobs, wages and conditions. Over 1,100...
Junior doctors voted for action to restore free accommodation or get £4,800 compensation

Junior Doctors To Act Over 20% Pay Cut

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Angry delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Conference in central London on Saturday voted for action to restore free accommodation for...

Labour in crisis after shock Runcorn defeat

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REFORM UK’s shock win in Runcorn & Helsby has plunged Labour into crisis. Nigel Farage’s candidate Sarah Pochin snatched the seat by a mere six...
Walthamstow students show their support for WRP candidate Jonty Leff and WRP policies yesterday

Voting Wrp In Walthamstow

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‘I AM voting for Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Jonty Leff because the WRP are the only party fighting for a future for young people,’...

RMT SUPPORTS VESTAS OCCUPATION! – Crow calls for nationalisation

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RMT leader Bob Crow yesterday called for the nationalisation of the occupied Vestas wind turbine factory at Newport, Isle of Wight. In their occupation statement...

Airport workers support Sunday’s march

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday got great support for their march this Sunday for reinstatement for all sacked workers on their original terms...

Leff team wins big Hoxton support

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A TEAM campaigning for Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch, Jonty Leff, won big support on Saturday in Hoxton Market from...

Resident doctors begin five day strike against falling pay

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RESIDENT doctors formed a large picket outside St Thomas’ Hospital on Friday morning as they began a five-day strike over falling pay and the...
A huge and enthusiastic picket line at Peckham Bus Garage full of determination to win £31,000 a year for every bus driver

‘£31,000 For All Bus Drivers!’

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‘WE are rock solid!’ Unite leader Len McCluskey declared yesterday during the 24-hour London-wide bus strike that brought the capital to a standstill. He was...

‘A CHILLING ATTACK ON THE PUBLIC SECTOR’ –Prentis condemns government cuts

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‘Prime Minister Cameron’s plans to slash public spending will hit the poor and the vulnerable,’ TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned yesterday. Commenting on ...
Young Socialists marchers welcomed at Sheffield GMB offices with a great fish and chips dinner

Sheffield hails March for Jobs

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The YS March for Jobs and Free State Education marched for 17 miles from Sheffield to Chesterfield yesterday. It is marching on to Mansfield and...
Family of Jean Charles de Menezes visit site of their son's murder

‘The whole airport must come out’ demand Gate Gourmet workers

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‘THE whole airport must come out to win our jobs back and to defeat the victimisation of BA workers who took sympathy strike action...

Greenspan Lashes Bush

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Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve has released his memoirs, ‘The Age of Turbulence’, just as the economy goes into...
The four Kenyan claimants with lawyer Martin Day outside the High Court before the start of yesterday’s hearing

MAU MAU HEROES! – take on British state

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The UK government must take responsibility for the torture of Kenyans under the 1950s British colonial government, one of the survivors, 82-year-old Wambugu Wa...

4.3m UK CHILDREN NOW IN POVERTY! – RAISE CHILD BENEFIT DEMANDS COMMISSION

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THE SOCIAL Mobility Commission in its State of the Nation report 2021, published yesterday, has unveiled in detail the devastating impact of coronavirus on...
Writing tributes on the memorial at the base of Grenfell Tower yesterday

Grenfell Anniversary

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‘WE WANT the nation to keep Grenfell in their consciousness, member of the Justice4Grenfell campaign group Yvette Williams said on the anniversary of the...